On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Hi, > > I got a chance to install my set of boot floppies (which is just before > 2.2.6, and more or less the same as Christian Meder's except for the initial > boot process) on an AlphaServer DS10 today. It was an ... interesting ... > experience. [snip] > 8) I still do not understand why we have both console-tools and kbd, and why > dselect wanted to install kbd. Then, console-tools' postinst hung - it said > "you have not selected a keymap, so I will use the default", and spawned > kbdconfig. When I answer the kbdconfig prompt, it just sits there. (Might > I add that kbdconfig is really evil on powerpc and m68k, since they > don't always use standard PC keyboards, and thus reloading the "default" > keymap mangles the keyboard layout horribly) Both console-tools and kbd just sit there when configuring from dpkg --configure, yet are fine running `kbdconfig' from the shell. It's been doing that on my i386 boxen for about the last month. Oh, and dpkg --configure also works when debconf is uninstalled (but that breaks the rest of the system) > > 9) The apt configurator is really nice, however, it should be possible to > skip apt configuration entirely (such as if network configuration has failed > somehow, and thus no archives are accessible). Also, it would be nice if > you could also select non-US in the apt configuration (can you? I couldn't > see a way) I couldn't either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
